A fight between the Dakota and Algonquin Native American tribes. Courtesy of the New York Public Library Digital Collections. Before the European colonists came to America, Algonquin-speaking ...

Between 1892 and 1954, more than twelve million immigrants passed through the U.S. immigration portal at Ellis Island, enshrining it as an icon of America's welcome. That story is well known.

The face puzzle, a box of wooden jigsaw pieces, looks like a child’s game, a primitive, flattened-out version of Mr. Potato Head. Start with the biggest piece, a half-inch-thick hunk of wood ...

There was a time when the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island welcomed the tired, the poor, the “huddled masses yearning to ...